"flirtship" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From flirt + -ship.",
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          "ref": "2011, M[atthew] T[obin] Anderson, Zombie Mommy, New York, N.Y. […]: Beach Lane Books, page 145",
          "text": "Drgnan suggested, \"You might sit beside me instead of on me. My legs are falling asleep.\" ¶ \"Okay,\" said Madigan, \"is that one of your monklike secret sayings, in which you mean that you don't know how to go forward in our flirtship, or is it—\"",
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          "ref": "2018 September 6, Jack O'Keeffe, “The 'Big Brother' Showmance You've Been Waiting For Is Officially Official”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 2021-09-21",
          "text": "After weeks of the kind of \"will they/won't they\" tension that great television romances are made of, Tyler and Angela have turned their flirtship into a full-blown showmance on Big Brother.",
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        {
          "ref": "2021 September 11, “maybe i'm reaching..? but i feel like serena may have been IN on brendan/pieper scandal...”, in Reddit, r/bachelorinparadise, archived from the original on 2023-12-19",
          "text": "Chris, Jessenia, Alana situation--I don't think there was any ploy. They all knew each other and I'm sure many contestants have flirtships at one point or another but I don't think they had any plot to begin with or else Chris wouldn't have left so easily.",
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        "A friendship which involves flirting but that has not yet progressed into a serious relationship."
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        "(informal) A friendship which involves flirting but that has not yet progressed into a serious relationship."
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  "word": "flirtship"
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          "ref": "2011, M[atthew] T[obin] Anderson, Zombie Mommy, New York, N.Y. […]: Beach Lane Books, page 145",
          "text": "Drgnan suggested, \"You might sit beside me instead of on me. My legs are falling asleep.\" ¶ \"Okay,\" said Madigan, \"is that one of your monklike secret sayings, in which you mean that you don't know how to go forward in our flirtship, or is it—\"",
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          "text": "Chris, Jessenia, Alana situation--I don't think there was any ploy. They all knew each other and I'm sure many contestants have flirtships at one point or another but I don't think they had any plot to begin with or else Chris wouldn't have left so easily.",
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        "(informal) A friendship which involves flirting but that has not yet progressed into a serious relationship."
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